06-17-2023, 03:47 PM
0:30 that's cuz they moved the shit to NW Utah and I have an interesting story about the extreme military presence/surveillance in that area...
(04-23-2023, 09:31 PM)Chatwoman Wrote: One time I was driving through an area west of SLC that didn't have much traffic...
Really no other vehicles around...
Then a cop came up on me and I pulled over thinking, "The heck did I do?" but he just told me to get off the side of the road as far as I could because a wide load was coming.
So I got far off the road, sat for a few minutes, and eventually a few other cars came along and had to follow suit.
Then the military escort came down the road and behind them on a massive multi-truck hauler setup was what I can only describe as the head of a GIANT SHOVEL.
To even call it a shovel seems so ridiculous.
It was the size of a building, took up the entire road.
It was shaped like a shovel, looked like a shovel head.
I can't imagine any type of earth moving tractor large enough to actually use a shovel of that size.
So maybe it wasn't a shovel, maybe it was half of an oddly shaped huge metal building.
I have no idea, but all I know is that it definitely looked like a shovel to me.
It was a shovel the size of a house.
Apparently this is the world's largest "electric shovel"...
http://www.kansastravel.org/bigbrutus.htm
The shovel part of that machine doesn't really LOOK like a shovel to me...
I dunno.
The one I saw was bigger than the shovel part on that machine, and it was light colored metal.
It looked a lot more like a shovel than that does.
So, size-wise it seems like what I saw probably WAS a shovel.
It didn't have any of the sharp pointy bits on the front though...
It looked like a giant version of this:
https://i.imgur.com/bVlKW9H.jpg
Like a giant snow shovel.
Closest likeness I can find.
There were agents along the road in association with the transport of the giant shovel though...
One of them was just a single solitary dude in a hardhat holding one of those road construction stop signs, and his truck was parked to the side of the road.
I thought it was super weird that he was totally alone out there, and this was a huge long stretch of road where you could see for a LONG way. There was clearly no construction going on.
So I was the only car on the road for a hot minute, and I stop for him...
He comes up to my window, friendly guy, starts asking me strange questions, seemed like a probing.
Noted my southern accent, thought it was interesting that I was all the way out west exploring around on my own.
He was definitely sizing me up because after the whole giant shovel thing, I got the impression that they wanted to know exactly who was on the road that day to see whatever kind of massive machinery they were transporting.
Made me think the whole thing was supposed to be as secretive as possible.
https://www.sectual.com/thread-18880-pos...#pid165934
